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Women’s Conference Marketing
A graphic designer is given the job of marketing and promoting a church’s women’s conference. Offer your input and ideas for this week’s peer review. Samples: Posters and a brochure for ...
Pat Robertson Assassinates Jesus
As you can expect, the news channels are swarmed with chatter over the latest stupid thing Pat Robertson has said: The U.S. should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (watch the ...
The Upside of the Downside
Authenticity in marketing and communication continues to be tried and tested. Whether it be the “real” women in the Dove campaign, the sincerity of a t-shirt from a church ...
Church Ice Cream Truck
Thanks to the USA Today tip, we heard about New Life Christian Church in Centreville, Va. and their ice cream truck. They spent $10,000 on an ice cream truck and ...
Hey Look, Church Marketing!
USA Today covered church marketing yesterday with the headline, “God is cool.” The story covers the growing trend of churches doing marketing, including the following techniques: An ice cream truck passing ...
Church Web Site Poll Results
Last week’s poll asked if your church had a web site, and 79% of churches did have a web site. Though that sounds like good news, 43% of people said ...
Attack Ads from the Pulpit?
One of the the basic principles of good marketing is to focus on the power of your own product (i.e. the VW campaigns that focus on the “cool” factor of ...
Saturday Service Mailer
This week’s peer review is more of a case study, since it already went out and we know the results, but it’s still valuable to review the strategy and design ...
New Guest Blogger Jennifer Laycock
Say hello to Jennifer Laycock, the newest guest blogger for Church Marketing Sucks. Jennifer is a search engine expert who consults for companies on search engine markteing. She’ll be sharing ...
The First Vagabonds Church of God
Back in May, Kevin posted about choosing a church name. There’s been a definite shift over the past several years of churches looking for a new identity. The name of ...
Free $25 Google AdWords Credit
With all the recent talk about search engine marketing, Derek at Woodland Baptist Church in Bradenton, Fla. pointed out that you can get a $25 credit for Google AdWords if ...
The Church Marketing Sucks E-mail Newsletter
You may have noticed the e-mail newsletter sign-up in our lefthand sidebar, which is a new feature that came with our recent redesign. We offer a few different lists for ...
Ministry as Marketing
One complaint we often hear about marketing is that churches should just do something instead. Actions speak louder than words. If we get out in the community and do what ...
Keyword Advertising Results
Last week’s survey asked about search engine marketing and the results are interesting. Of our 83 responses (which is a new low—so was it a busy week or a boring ...
Integrating Visitors into Your Church
There’s been plenty of discussion on our Reasons to Use Direct Mail post. One of the comments hinted at some research about visitors and I followed up with the commenter, ...
Missions Sunday Bulletin
It’s Missions Sunday at Westgate Chapel, or at least it was a few weeks ago. For this week’s peer review we take a look at their bulletin. You can always ...
Australia’s “Jesus: All About Life” Campaign
A new $250,000 marketing campaign is trying to promote Jesus to Australians. The “Jesus: All About Life” campaign has raised money from various churches and ministries and will run TV, ...